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Rookie cornerback Grant Haley could not have picked

a better time to be elevated from the practice squad to the New York Giants' roster.The Giants (1-5) are heading to Atlanta to play the Falcons (2-4) on Monday night.It's home for Haley and he is going to see the women who inspires him � his mother Womens Dexter Lawrence Jersey , Dr. Carla Neal-Haley. She is a pediatrician, an internist and a battler.For the past five or six years, Neal-Haley has been fighting a rare liver disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). It damages the bile ducts and causes the liver to deteriorate over time. There is no cure. She needs a new liver."We've been working on that, finding different donors, having people tested," Haley said Thursday before going out to practice. "It's been important to me to reach out and use my social media presence to help in any way possible. She has been my biggest supporter and there for everything I have been through. For me as a son, it's only right for me to do the same."Neal-Haley had open heart surgery in January and her condition now makes her eligible to get a new liver.There is a Facebook page aimed at finding a donor (@liverforcarla).Haley said his mother still goes to work every day, although one of her new jobs is finding tickets for Monday night. The family needs about 10 and probably more for friends.If active, the game will be his NFL debut."With the family there, this is special," said Haley, who also has a younger brother and sister. "My mom, she is excited. She is looking for tickets. She has been loving and supporting. Now for a moment like this Men Dexter Lawrence Jersey , it's special for her, everything she is going through. I am in a blessed position and I can't be more thankful for the opportunity."Haley, whose father, Leon Jr., is a dean at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville, has overcome some adversity to get into this position. He was not drafted and signed with the Giants as a free agent. He had a good training camp and was in the final cuts. The Giants immediately added him to the practice squad, where the minimum salary was $7,600 weekly.He will make more than $28,000 weekly on the 53-man roster.Being on the 10-man practice squad was an adjustment after training camp."I looked at the situation and you get to go against Odell (Beckham Jr.) and Shep (Sterling Shepard) every day, why not take advantage of that and continue to grow your skillset?" Haley said. "Once I did that, then it started being fun out there and normal. I'm glad I used that as a growing experience to be ready when my number was called."Haley was at MetLife Stadium for the Giants' home games and watched the away contests on television. It admittedly was a strange feeling after starting 36 of 49 games at Penn State. All he could do was root for his teammates.He took notes though and worked hard. Now he might get a chance to go against receiver Julio Jones and quarterback Matt Ryan, guys he watched on television when he was home in Atlanta."Mom will definitely be there," Haley said.Giants� Odell Beckham leads with his words, now needs to do it with his play It would have been easy on Friday afternoon to jump straight into an �Odell Beckham Jr. should just shut up and play better� rant or otherwise rip him for using an ESPN interview to vent his frustrations at his teammates over the New York Giants 1-3 start.I�ll admit. The first thing that came to mind was �here goes Beckham Youth Dexter Lawrence Jersey , making it about him again.�This, though, is one of the reasons why, after 11 years here at Big Blue View and 40 years of writing for a living, I try not to do �hot takes.� They can be great reads. They can get reactions, good or bad. They can also be wrong.Was Beckham venting frustration at the team�s 1-3 record and poor offensive start, was he throwing his quarterback and his other teammates under the bus when he questioned their energy and said the Giants�need to play with some heart?� Was he saying �look at me, I�m doing everything and these guys are dragging me down?� Was this Beckham speaking out of turn and causing an unnecessary headache for Pat Shurmur.Or, was Beckham � more mature in his fifth season from everything we have seen to this point and with the richest contract ever given to a wide receiver in his pocket � trying to step up, trying to get his teammates� attention, trying to hold them accountable?Was this Beckham�s Antrel Rolle moment? You remember back in 2011 when Rolle called out his teammates, in particular defensive captain Justin Tuck, and the Giants went on a Super Bowl run. That�s the view expressed by Art Stapleton of northjersey.com. Was this Beckham, as Pat Traina wrote for Forbes Color Rush Dexter Lawrence Jersey , trying to be a leader?Beckham�s teammates didn�t have a problem with what he said. Shurmur didn�t seem to have a problem with it, basically telling reporters to go find Beckham and clarify what he meant.Having thought about it for a day, I don�t have a problem with it, either.Beckham is the Giants� heartbeat. He is their energy source. Beckham is for the Giants what Reggie Jackson once called himself for the Yankees, �the straw that stirs the drink.�In retrospect, I think Beckham tried to deliver his message about losing not being acceptable on Thursday during his weekly locker room scrum with the media. During that chat he used the word �energy� 12 times. That barely registered on anyone�s radar. Perhaps, and we don�t know for sure because Beckham wasn�t in the locker room during Friday�s media session to clarify anything, he felt that when he spoke to ESPN�s Josina Anderson that he would have to go a step further to get the impact he was hoping for. Thus, the word �heart.� Or, maybe he didn�t mean to go there at all. Beckham is right that the Giants need to be better on offense. He�s right that they need to challenge defenses down the field more often. He�s right that you need to put in the work all week and not just on Sunday. He�s right that their season isn�t doomed because of their 1-3 start, although the heartbeat � sorry � is faint.Maybe Beckham�s words will spur his teammates. Also, though, Beckham needs to play better. Yes, Eli Manning has missed Beckham on a few throws � throws that he needs to make. The fact that Beckham hasn�t gotten into the end zone and is averaging a career-low 10.7 yards per catch is not New York Giants Jersey 2019 , though, all Manning�s fault. Or, the offensive line�s fault. Or, Shurmur�s fault. Beckham has admitted to being hesitant at times to reach for the extra gear that made him special. He said Thursday that �I don�t feel like I can be covered,� but at times he has been covered � even 1-on-1. There are examples of both missed throws and times Beckham isn�t open in the video below.If Beckham is trying to lead, which I think he is, that�s good. He should. As I said, he�s the team�s heartbeat. He is the face of the franchise. The Giants, though, will look like they have a lot more energy and heart when they are playing better. When they stop making mistakes and going backwards more than 17 percent of the time as an offense.They need Beckham doing the things on the field that made him special to make that happen.